Aren’t just going replace the ones he bought in January… usually what happens.
Looks like City got the deal through.
Hope he does fuck all
185M spent this window?
On top of everything else? And all the charges?
It’s a joke.
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Really doesn’t matter too much for them if they do get relegated to the championship. They’ll send their heavy earners out on loan to reduce the wage bill and still have enough quality to come right back the following year. I suppose pep can take a sabbatical or manage one of city’s other clubs in the meanwhile. You’ll find takers for the likes of Haaland / Rodri / Foden willing to take them on a years loan. And possibly even pay City some amount as well.
The pensioners are anyway on their way out of the club.
For them to really get fucked. They need relegation to the vanarama national league. All their previous Ill gotten trophies stripped and their ownership forced to sell the club.
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What happens if the EFL refuse to take on City? Can they? I know that when Rangers were kicked out of the Scottish Premier League the Scottish league insisted that they had to go to the fourth tier, although they probably should have gone to the Junior league.
Would have been the highland league (or lowland).
Also Rangers were basically wiped and this was a new club.
Then again on the flip side the PL really doesn’t need Man City.
My only assumption of a really harsh penalty would be if they banned them from the PL for a set number of years. If that was a long period then they would be fucked. But sadly I feel the best we can hope for is a relegation and some fine maybe some trophies stripped of the PL wants to send a message
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It was just about half of all spending in the premier league this window, and the second biggest winter window ever. And this despite their new DoF not starting until June.
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In other words they spent as much as all the other PL teams combined. And it doesn’t even scratch the surface of their problems 
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You have to wonder if they are betting on the complete collapse of spending controls. I’d be curious to see a deep dive Swiss Ramble-style on those numbers.
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I’d imagine they had loads of PSR room given the money the brought in during the summer and their relative lack of spending in this 3 year cycle.
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True, they have been more restrained of late. But one dimension of possible sanctions would be limiting their spending over and above normal PSR requirements
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It’s a move that looks every bit an attempt to get in with long terms moves before they get sanctioned, and to do with players of a sufficiently low profile that they might be incentivized to stick with them through a punishment in a way that a player who could sign for Barca or Bayern wouldnt
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I keep going back to the point that the appropriate sanctions given the magnitude and brazenness of the cheating (that they knew they were cheating and deliberately took steps to conceal it) should be that anyone involved should be given lifetime bans from football, and the club itself should be wound up.
Won’t happen though.
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My hope is the PL relegate them, at the same time providing all the details to HMRC.
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Jurgen Klopp won every major trophy in Europe by buying players from Sunderland, Hull, Southampton, Hoffenheim, Roma, Wolves etc. His net transfer spend over 9 years was £346million.
Pep Guardiola has just spent £200million in January because he lost a few games. He cannot make superstars, he can only buy them.
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